I heard about Obama's Israel speech, but had not listened to it (do not worry, I rarely listen to speeches by either party). But one thing bugged me when I heard the sound bites. I heard the word "contiguous". But no one was talking about it (right or left). I finally read an article quoting that part of the speech:
The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their full potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.
For the uninformed, or just plain ignorant of geography, that sounds like a good thing "Yea, Yea, That's the ticket!". However to anyone who has even done a modicum of reading on the whole Mid-East issue, that should have sounded alarm bells. For simply put, Gaza is on the opposite side of Israel. Ensuring a "contiguous" Palestinian nation would effectively ensure that Israel would not be contiguous! It would split it in 2.
With the level of world geographic education in the US being what it is, I can understand most not picking up on that problem. Even for most of the Mainstream Media (since copy writing does not require much of an education and copying DNC talking points is all they do). But for the "Smartest" man in the world to make such a bone head blunder? He is either very stupid - or he wants to split Israel in 2.
And this was the clown that was against interfering in the internal affairs (Iraq) of other nations?